Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faithfully to maintain the range and scope of these services, and the rates of benefits." The Tories promised increased government spending on farm subsidies, rural housing, roads and forests, pensions to widows, spinsters and the aged, and free drugs to "private patients" who choose to stay outside the National Health plan...
Still had stumbled upon a crude version of the modern concept of antibodies. The body's own drugs, he thought, were concentrated in the blood; therefore, a full supply of blood to the whole system was necessary to health. Dr. Still preached that manipulation of the spine, muscles and joints, to preserve a normal blood flow, could prevent or cure practically any ailment...
Working with Technician Jessamine Hilliard, West noted that the milk-curdling property of blood varies with the patient's health. He attributed this to the relative strength of two enzyme inhibitors. These two inhibitors are mysterious, complex substances, not yet isolated and still nameless. They serve as policemen, regulating the action of the two enzymes: rennin (found mainly in the stomach) and chymotrypsin (in the pancreas). Both the enzymes are ferments which curdle milk. Their inhibitors circulate in the bloodstream...
Soon Lanny is helping Harry Hopkins draft the Yalta declaration, warning F.D.R. about the Russians and giving him a few pointers on Marxist theory. More & more, of course, he finds himself worrying about the President's health. After the Boss dies, there is still plenty to do: a trip to Europe to wheedle Göring into revealing the hiding place of the priceless collections of stolen art; a dash back to the U.S. to watch the first atom bomb billow up in the New Mexico sky; a mission to Nürnberg to help convict the war criminals...
Handyman. In Lincoln, Mass., John Joseph Kelliher, 69, decided that he would retire because of poor health, left vacant the jobs of police chief, constable, water commissioner, water department superintendent, moth superintendent, slaughtering inspector, dog officer and sealer of weights & measures...